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More respectful and thoughtful comments from an Oracle bigot.
You continue to demonstrate your biases and your pure opinionated non-logic that is frankly extremely short-sighted and dismisses anything but your own twisted reasoning.
It has already been stated that the DB2 codebase is exactly the same across the Intel/AMD/UNIX platforms ... the ones that DB2 competes against Oracle on. How you can just completely dismiss the benefits of the minor differences in code base (mostly not at an application level) is beyond me, and shows how you think. There are great similaries across all these code bases. If you'd hate to have to write any applications that might (stress MIGHT) have to differ somewhat across the Intel/AMD/UNIX vs. iseries vs. 390/z platforms, so be it. Evidently, thousands of ISVs differ with you. It's a matter of cost vs. benefit, and that is a business decision ... something you either apparently don't want to consider ... or that hasn't occurred to you.
The point is this. Why are you worried about having to do a bit more work if it results in a better product, sells licenses for your application, and makes you more money? Does Toyota put the same engine in all their cars? Don't you think their development costs would be lower if they did? Does GE make only one size air conditioner and tell consumers to install it in their house no matter how small or big it is? Don't you think GE's costs would be lower if they could do this?
Yes ... it IS better really.
Larry Edelstein
Noons wrote:
> Larry allegedly said,on my timestamp of 5/06/2004 9:09 AM:
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>> Precisely! The case is made that different code bases is actually >> better! You've got to have different exploitative code on each platform.
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